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  • Apple to issue US$100 credit to iPhone buyers

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs has responded to a flood of complaints from existing iPhone owners over Wednesday's US$200 price cut by promising the company would issue a US$100 credit to anyone who bought an iPhone before the change.

  • Apple revamps iPods, cuts 8GB iPhone price by US$200

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs Wednesday announced a total refresh of the company's iconic iPod music player line that includes the new iPod touch, a Wi-Fi device that's essentially an iPhone without the phone and sports a touch-screen interface.

  • Don't let iPhone users go it alone

    The iPhone has finally arrived [in the US]. Apple sold more than 500,000 of the little darlings the first weekend, and you can be sure that some of the people who bought them are at your company. They’ll want to use their iPhones for work. And no matter what Gartner says, if one of them is your CEO, you’ve got no choice.

  • Other mobile devices compare well with the iPhone

    I wish I could have peppered my recent iPhone review with phrases such as "at present", “initially”, or “for the time being”. But Apple doesn’t work that way. If I could be confident that Apple would address the major shortcomings that I saw in iPhone, such as the absence of programmability and the lack of access to even a sandboxed portion of the device’s file system, I’d have given the device a thumbs-up for its platform potential alone.

  • iPhone gets file storage muscle — without Apple's help

    When the iPhone began shipping late last month, some users were disappointed that the mobile phone lacked support for Apple's popular iPod Disk Mode feature, which would allow the product to be used as a portable storage device.

  • Forum: Apple proves proprietary approach still has legs

    Way, way back in 1996 I was sitting in the Computerworld New Zealand sub-editors’ area and pondering the recently delivered, and not very enthusiastically received, news that we were about to lose our Macintoshes. IDG, as we were then, was standardising on PCs.

  • IT braces for iPhone debut

    As scheduled release of Apple's iPhone on June 29 draws ever closer, some IT managers are hustling to get ready to support the new devices, anticipating the moment when the CEO walks in with one and demands to read his corporate email on it.

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